Re: Memory needed for hibernation too much

[Jacky Lam <lamshuyin@gmail.com>]

On 2/28/2011 9:55 AM, 胡洪兵 wrote:
> 于 11/02/28 9:03, Jacky Lam 写道:
>> I create a 300GB swap space (just use up the remaining space in disk, no
>> special reason). Is that a problem?
>>
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> You could try to change the memory model to "Sparese Memory".
>
> Kernel type --->
>  Memory model (Sparse Memory)  --->

     My system memory only has 1 node of continuous memory. Any reason 
for that?

Jacky

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>> Jacky
>>
>> On 2/25/2011 4:12 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:56, Jacky Lam<lamshuyin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I try the hibernation feature with my MIPS box which has 128MB RAM.
>>>> After
>>>> boot up, it remains to have 110MB something. Then I mount ramfs on a
>>>> directory, create a file 100MB from /dev/urandom and enter
>>>> hibernation. The
>>>> process failed because of no memory. Then, I continue to cut the data
>>>> file
>>>> size and not success until 20MB.
>>>>
>>>> I want to make sure if it is an expected behavior or I am doing some
>>>> wrong?
>>> How large is your swapspace? Hibernation needs space on swap to store
>>> the contents
>>> of RAM (that cannot be loaded again from somewhere else).
>>>
>>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>>
>>> Geert
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
>>> geert@linux-m68k.org
>>>
>>> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a
>>> hacker. But
>>> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something
>>> like that.
>>> -- Linus Torvalds
>>>
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